Arden-Arcade, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Arden-Arcade CDP is a small city in California, with 96,319 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #79 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 95% of them. The median age here is 36.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Arden-Arcade CDP earn a median of $71,767 a year, 8.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 21% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 18.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Arden-Arcade CDP is valued at $504,400, 66.2% above the national figure and 14% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,476 a month, 5% above the national figure, or roughly $17,712 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 45.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Home values sit at 7× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.